I didn't want to tell on Donnie yet I couldn't lie about it.
If it succeeds, there will be a new line of communication along which that great personality will tell on men's minds and hearts.
By degrees the work, and especially the routine work, began to tell on him.
The competition of beet-sugar and the effect of bounties granted by various countries then began to tell on the production in Mauritius, the average crop for the seven years ending1900-1901being only 150,449 tons.
The great writers of the early centuries were to tell on men's minds not in the breadth of their treatment but in a theological pemmican.